In September 1950; Horace Ward; an African American student from La Grange; Georgia; applied to law school at the University of Georgia. Despite his impressive academic record; Ward received a reply—in reality; a bribe—from one of the university's top officials offering him financial assistance if he would attend an out-of-state law school. Ward; outraged at the unfairness of the proposition and determined to end this unequal treatment; sued the state of Georgia with the help of the NAACP; becoming the first black student to challenge segregation at the University of Georgia.Beginning with Ward's unsuccessful application to the university and equally unsuccessful suit; Robert A. Pratt offers a rigorously researched account of the tumultuous events surrounding the desegregation of Georgia's flagship institution. Relying on archival materials and oral histories; Pratt debunks the myths encircling the landmark 1961 decision to accept black students into the university: namely the notion that the University of Georgia desegregated with very little violent opposition. Pratt shows that when Ward; by then a lawyer; helped litigate for the acceptance of Hamilton Earl Holmes and Charlayne Alberta Hunter; University of Georgia students; rather than outsiders; carefully planned riots to encourage the expulsion of Holmes and Hunter. Pratt also demonstrates how local political leaders throughout the state sympathized with—even aided and abetted--the student protestors.Pratt's provocative story of one civil rights struggle does not stop with the initial legal decision that ended segregation at the university. He also examines the legacy of Horace Ward and other civil rights pioneers involved in the university's desegregation—including Donald Hollowell and Constance Baker Motley—who continued for a lifetime to break color barriers in the South and beyond. We Shall Not Be Moved is a testament to Horace Ward; Hamilton Holmes; Charlayne Hunter-Gault; and others who bravely challenged years of legalized segregation.
#553703 in Books Wesleyan 1988-12-15Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.02 x .80 x 5.56l; .88 #File Name: 0819562084335 pages
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Slavery as an Economic System: Profit or Loss for the Masters?By peorAll reviews are; however much you wish to make a scientific exercise of them; colored by your personal bias and experience. Political economical interpretations bring to mind right away a 'Marxist' interpretation; and that is the bias that I started the book with. The author; however; presents a descriptive study of the economy present in the South in the nineteenth century; based as it was; on the unpaid labor of slaves. The final judgement on the pros an cons is based on the economic terms of the system and not on its morality as some enemies of slavery frequently fall back on; although justifiedly. The slave economy seems to have been a profitable system or it would not have subsisted as long as it did.The slave economy was profitable enough to encourage slaveholders to invest their profits in land and more slaves; rather than in manufacture; as the North was doing; for fear of a free white laborer class that might rival their social level; but unwilling yo permit the slaves to reach this same level; for the same reasons. In the meantime; the North with a pool of free paid labor with an incentive to join the propertied class and growing as more and more white immigrants came; left the South behind; in a condition comparable to what in the twentieth century the United States would be to the third world countries; providers of staples as the South did to the North; the West Indies and Europe; and customer of their manufactures and e'n depending of the North for a good portion of their food supplies.I had read about slavery in the abstract or in personal cases; but never considered it in its details as an economic system; and Professor Genovese has helped me understand this facet of the system which underlies so many of the problems that the United States still faces today.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I can not understand you can spend years in school ...By Golden Falcons LLCI can not understand you can spend years in school and never hear of this book. It delves into the intricacies of Slavery a system the imbued everyone and everything. A must read for those who really want understand what really happen. and who profited from it.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Great book that shows how slavery was an economic anachronism ...By Robert WhitmanGreat book that shows how slavery was an economic anachronism in the south---it wasn't very profitable and was maintained mostly for social-relations; racial hierarchy and cultural reasons. Shows how oftentimes people perpetuate systems; not because they are the most profitable; but because they perpetuate their power and control over others.
